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A  BRIEF  ACCOUNT  OF  THE 
Revival  of  Religion, 

Extracted  from  Letters   lately  received  from  America, 


EXTRACT    I. 


Mr.  S- 


W- 


,  of  Windham,  in  Connecticut,  thus  writes 

to  his  Friend  in  Boston. 


Rev.  and  dear  Si 


Windham,  Oft.  2,  175 


Y 


OU  will  pardon  me  for  troubling  you  with 
a  line  from  an  unworthy,  though  fincere  friend. 
It  is  a  time  of  general  health  in  thefe  parts  ;  but 
this  is  not  the  beft  news  with  which  I  ihali  ac- 
quaint you  :  for  •'  as  cold  water  to  a  thirfty  foul, 
fo  is  good  news  from  a  far  country."  God  is 
carrying  on  a  glorious  work  in  feveral  towns  in 
thefe  parts.  The  work  began  in  the  firft  fociety 
at  Mansfield,  about  five  or  fix  months  ago,  in  a 
very  gradual  manner ;  but  foon  took  a  very  rapid 
fpread  in  the  weft  part  of  the  town.  A  fermon 
preached  in  that  neighbourhood.,  at  a  funeral,  by 
the  Rev.  Mr.  Shearman,  was  greatly  blefTed.  The 
Spirit  of  the  Lord  feemed  to  fweep  all  before  it, 
like  an  over-flowing  flood,  though  with  very  little 
noife.  It  is  wonderful  to  fee  the  furprifing  altera- 
tion  in  the  people  in  fo  (hort  a  time.  I  conclude 
there  are  not  lefs  than  an  hundred  fouls  converted 
in  that  town  fince  the  work  began.  Soon  after, 
it  began  in  Ha?npton,  but  did  not  fpread  with  the 
fame  rapidity  as  it  did  in  Mansfield.  The  like 
happy  work  has  lately  taken  place  in  Ajhford,  in 


the  Rev.  Mr.  Pond's  fociety,  with  a  good  degree 
ot  power.  It  has  alio  fpread  into  the  fecond  fo- 
ciety m  Mansfield,  under  the  pafloral  care  of  Rev. 
Mr.  Weljh;  alio  in  the  upper  part  of  Canterbury, 
and  lately  in  Abington,  in  Pomjrtt. 

Dear  fir,  we  (nay  fay,  in  the  midft  of  judgment 
God  is  (hewing  himlelf  marvclloully  good  and 
kind  ;  and  though  it  leemed  our  land,  a  few  months 
ago,  was  fully  ripe  tor  defiruclion,  and  the  hot 
thunder- bolts  of  divine  wrath  were  hanging  over 
our  heads,  yet  God  has  made  a  rich  difpiay  of  his 
grace,  in  the  converfion  ot  many  fouls.  One  thing- 
is  remarkable  in  this  reformation,  there  is  fuch 
evidence  carried  in  the  work,  that  none,  or  but 
very  few  dare  oppofe  it.  Bigotry,  which  was  fo 
common  between  the  Standing  Order,  or  the  Con- 
gregationalilts,  and  the  Diflenters,  is  done  away. 
This  work  is  chiefly  among  the  Standing  Order. 


EXTRACT  II. 

Containing  a  farther  account  of  the  lame  work,  in  a  Letter  from 
the  Rev.  E P ,  to  his  Parents,  dated  Aihford,  Septem- 
ber  24,    1798. 

Honoured  Parents, 

1  mult  inform  you  of  the  work  of  God,  which 
is  going  on  in  thefe  parts.  Early  in  May,  an  atten- 
tion to  religion  began  in  the  fir  ft  fociety  in  Mans- 
field,  which  increafed  to  a  great  degree,  fo  as  to 
become  general.  It  then  began  in  Hampton,  where 
it  is  as  general  as  in  Mansfield.  About  four  weeks 
fince,  it  began  here,  and,  for  the  time,  has  fpread 
very  fall  ;  fo  that  about  eighty  have  been  under 
great  concern  :  of  this  number,  nearly  twenty 
have  a  good  hope  they  have  been  M  born  again* 
The  w><rk  feems  to  be  fpreading.  In  one  family 
of  my  people,  who  have  only  three  little  daughters. 
the  eldeft  fifteen  years  old,  they  all  give  evidence 


4 

that  they  have  been  born  again  !  The  work  has 
alio  begun  in  Mr.  Welflis  fociety  in  Mansfield ; 
and  the  profpecls  are  very  favourable  in  Westjord. 
Do  unite  in  prayer,  that  God  would  pour  out  his 
Spirit  upon  you.  It  only  two  or  three  can  be  in- 
duced to  engage,  do  not  omit  it.  This  feems  to 
have  been  the  beginning  of  the  work  in  Mansfield. 


ecoooccocooooeoo 


EXTRACT    III. 


Containing  an  account  of  the  beginning  of  the  reformation  in  Hart- 
ford,  in  a  Ltt:er  from  the  Rev.  S— —  S.  N ,  of  that  City,  to 

his  friend  in   Boston,   dated  Jan.  14,    1799. 

Rev.  and  dear  Sir, 

l\  glorious  revival  of  religion  has  lately 
taken  place  among  us.  Two  of  my  brothers-in-law, 
theyoungeif  about  twelve  years  old,  and  the  other 
fourteen,  had  been  under  deep  conviction  at 
times,  for  feveral  weeks  before  ourlaft  Thankfgiv- 
ing;  and  on  that  day,  whilft  I  was  preaching,  the 
yoangeif  was  bleiied  with  great  peace  in  believ- 
ing, and  went  home  with  his  foul  overflowing  with 
joy.  This  affected  the  whole  family;  feveral  of 
whonij  we  trufr,  could  rejoice  with  him;  all  the 
reft  were  much  alarmed,  and  led  to  cry  out,  under 
pungent  conviction,  "  What  fhall  we  do  to  be 
favtd?"  From  this  time  it  has  fpread  from  houfe 
to  iioufe,  and  from  heart  to  heart,  till  almoft  the 
whole  City  has  got  alarmed. 

I  think-  as  many  as  fifteen  or  twenty  have  been 
hopefully  converted;  many  more  are  under  pain- 
ful convictions,  and  the  work  is  ft  ill  fpreadmg.  It 
has  alfo  extended  its  happy  influence  among  the 
other  denominations,  who  have  fet  up  religious 
conferences,  and  welcome  its  approach. 

We  have  meetings  almofl  every  evening  in  the 
week.  Mere  is  freely  a  Macedonian  cry,  "  Do 
come  over  and  help  us." 


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EXTRACT    IV. 

Containing  a  further  account  of  the  fame  work,   in   i 
the  Rev.  J B ,  dated  atTrumbull,  Fc'j.  6,   1799,  to  i... 

friend  at  Newbury  Port. 

My  dear  Friend  and  Brother, 

THROUGH  the  kind  hand  of  God,  I  arrived 
here  yeiterday.  I  (topped  at  Hartford,  and 
preached  five  Sermons. 

The  fpirit  of  hearing  at  Hartford  is  greater  tha  1 
any  representations  that  have  been  made.  Yourig 
people  of  both  fexes  flock  by  hundreds,  and  the 
proipeft  is  flattering  in  the  extreme.  Conference 
meetings  are  held  every  night  in  different  private 
houfes.  In  Mr.  Strong's  fociety,  fixty  are  thought 
to  be  under  conviction,  and  twenty  have  been 
hopefully  brought  into  gofpel-liberty.  In  Mr. 
Nelfons,  thirty,  and  fome  in  Mr.  Flint's. 

The  youth  hold  correspondence  one  with  ano- 
ther by  letters,  and  with  thofe  of  the  neighbour- 
ing towns.  Hundreds  are  under  fome  ferious  con- 
cern, while  hundreds  more  {land  ailonilhed,  and 
are  ready  to  cry,  "  What  meaneth  all  this?" 

The  Lord  Teems  to  have  ftepped  out  of"  the 
nfual  path  of  ordinances,  to  effect  this  work  more 
immediately  in  the  difplays  of  his  almighty  power, 
and  the  effiifion  of  his  Spirit;  probably  to  fnew 
that  the  work  is  his  own.  It  is  not  attended  with 
noife  and  contuhon,  but  with  Solemnity  and  re- 
verence. No  fire;  no  ruining  wind;  no  earth- 
quake ;  but  a  Hill  Small  voice  goes  before  this 
wonderful  work;  no  doubt,  to  hide  pride  from 
man.  The  mini  Hers  are  {lined  up  to  uncommon 
diligence  and  labour,  So  that  they  have  Scarcely 
time  to  prepare  for  public  exerciies. 

The  Sacred  flame  has  Spread  into  many  ncigh- 
A3 


bouring  towns,*  and  the  pious  arc  flocking  into 
Hartford  to  be  eye-witnefles  of  this  glorious  work. 
J  have  telt  myfelf  fo  much  engaged  in  preaching, 
vifiting,  and  converting  with  old  and  young,  that 
my  attention  has  been  literally  taken  off  from 
Wife,  Children,  Flock,  and  bodily  infirmities. 
O  that  my  pall  time  had  been  better  employed 
and  filled  than  it  has  been.  Should  my  health 
be  continued,  I  hope,  by  the  grace  of  God,  to 
fpend  my  ftrength  wholly  in  the  Lord's  caufe, 
which  carries  its  own  reward  with  it. 

Two  hundred  miles  N.  W.  of  Hcutford,  on  the 
border  of  the  Indian  nations,  I  am  informed  that 
the  Lord  is  pouring  out  his  Spirit  plentifully.  The 
Aborigines  +  flock  to  hear  the  Gofpel,  and  fall  un- 
der the  word,  like  Dagon  before  the  Ark.  I  have 
(een  a  preacher  from  thofe  parts,  who  gives  the 
moft  flattering  accounts,  and  informs  me,  that 
very  large  numbers  have  been  added  to  the 
churches  in  that  vicinity,  the  ;afl  year. 

After  the  fertnon  was  finished  upon  a  late  occa- 
fion  in  the  woods,  an  Indian  flood  up  with  tears 
in  his  eyes,  and  thus  addrefled  the  audience: 
"  I  defire  to  blefs  God  that  white  people  ever 
came  into  this  country.  White  people  brought 
the  B  ble,  and  the  religion  of  Jefus  with  them. 
White  people  prayed  for  the  converfion  of  the 
heathen,  and  I  (land  up  this  day  as  a  living  wit- 
nefs  of  the  power  of  God's  converting  grace  in 
anfzuer  to  their  prayers.  Continue  to  pray  for  the 
converfion  of  more  heathens,  that  they  alfo  may 
be  brought  to  the  knowledge  of  Jefus." 


*   It  is  mentioned  in  a  letter  of  April  25,  from  a  refpeftabie  cha- 
racter in  Hartford,  that  it  has  fpread  into  nearly  one  hundred 

towns. 

t  Or  native  Indians. 


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EXTRACT     V. 

r  Cal  bBlo  I,  i  Baptift  Minifter  of  Shafteflwry,  in  the  State  of 
\  .oat,  gives  the  following  particulars  of  the  reformation  in  that 
town. 

Rev.  Sir,  Feb.  21,  1799. 

I  Am   fenfible  that   under  too  great  a  degree 
of  animation,  even  Chriflians  too  often  ex 
rate  their  accounts  ot  revivals  of   religion.     But 
I  will  attempt  a  fimple,  but   (hort  narrative  of  the 
late   Wonderful  work  ot   God  in  this  place. 

In  the  month,  of  Api  il  I  aft,  there  appeared  nothing 
among  this  peop  e  hut  the  moll  rapid  increafe  ot 
every  fpecies  of  vice  and  immorality  ;  and  even 
profeifors  had  grown  cold  as  to  religious  exercifes. 

Towards  the  Jail  of  that  month;  it  p leafed  God 
to  vidt  my  poor  foul  with  fome  fenfe  ot  my 
Vllenefs  and  Ihort  comings,  and  how  little  I  tiad 
done  tor  God  and  the  good  ot  fouls.  At  this  tune 
1  think  Iliad  aglimpfe  >  f  the  infinite  character  of 
Jehovah,  which  made  mc  Ihrink  into  nothing  in 
my  own  efteem;  then,  to  my  aftonifhment,  my 
foul  was  ftrangely  drawn  forth,  at  particular 
times,  in  fecret  prayer,  tor  the  falvation  ot  Qn- 
ners.  Repeated  exercifes  of  this  kind  gave  me 
a  ftrong  confidence,  that  the  Lord  would  foon 
work  falvation  in  this  j)lace.  There  were,  how- 
ever, no  favourable  fymptoms  am  .\\<s  the  people 
until  the  month  of  July;  then  a  young  woman, 
who  had  been  converted  fome  years  before,  was 
ftirred  up  to  propofe  lierfelf  tor  baptifm.  Her 
eonverfation  was  made  the  mean  of  the  awaken- 
ing of  a  number  of  young  people.  Thus  the 
work  began.  In  Aug. ill,  tour  perfoas  more  were 
baptized.  In  September,  I  baptized  feventeen. 
M  «  y  were  aw  ikened  by  the  folemnity  of  this  or- 
dinance.    (Indeed  i  think  there  was  no  one  mean 


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moreblefTed  for  the  convi£tion  of  finners,  through 
the  whole  courfe  of  this  work,  than  the  admi niftra- 
tion  of  baptifm.)  But  to  return;  we  as  yet  held 
our  church  conferences,  to  hear  the  relations  of 
candidates,  but  once  a  month.  At  the  clofe  of 
October,  we  were  obliged  to  attend  two  days,  and 
then  were  not  able  to  hear  all  that  wilhedto  relate. 
The  next  Lord's-day  there  was  a  fevere  (form; 
baptifm  was  omitted  :  the  church  attended  two 
days  of  that  week  alfo,  to  hear  the  young  con- 
verts declare  what  the  Lord  had  done  for  them. 
I  was  then  under  the  neceflity  to  call  for  afliifance 
in  admini tiering  baptifm.  Accordingly,  brother 
Samuel  Rogers  attended  the  next  Sabbath,  and  we 
baptized  forty-fix  that  day.  We  then  found  it 
neceffary  to  hold  our  church  conferences  to  hear 
relations  once  a  week.  The  next  fabbath  I  bap- 
tized twenty-one;  the  next  fixteen ;  the  next 
thirteen ;  the  next  nine ;  and  there  have  been  but 
few  weeks  fince,  that  I  have  not  been  called  to 
the  precious  work  of  baptizing.  Zion's  gates 
were  then  truly  thronged  with  converts ! 

The  whole  number  added  to  this  church,  fince 
lafl  May,  is  175;  25  by  letter  and  other  ways; 
and  150  by  baptifm.  Our  whole  number  is  346. 
Many  of  this  number  are  removed  into  different 
parts  of  the  country;  there  are,  however,  nearly 
300  that  live  in  this  vicinity,  the  remoteft  of  them 
not  more  than  fix  miles  from  our  meeting-houfe* 

There  have  alfo  been  70  added  to  the  Weft 
church  in  this  town  fince  the  work  began;  and 
33  to  the  Eafl  church. 

As  the  principal  means  by  which  this  work  has 
been  carried  on,  I  mufl  fay,  that  no  one's  little 
or  great  preaching  can  juffly  lay  any  claim  to  the 
honours  of  it.  Several  brethren  in  the  mini  (fry 
have  vifited  us  in  the  time,  and  all  of  them  were 
blelfed  in  their  labours.  A  brothet  Jones,  from 
England,  was  an  inftrument  of  awakening  fome. 


I  have  been  filled  with  wonder  and  afionimment 
to  ice  how  the  L  rd  has  been  plealed  to  fuccecd 
fome  of  aimoil  all  Hie  preaching  that  has  been  in 
tins  town  hnce  I  l.o vc  been  here.  Even  when  I 
glOlirned,  and  thought    I  had  laboured  in  vain,   and 

that  my  preaching  was  as  water  fpilt  upon  a  rock; 
the  Lord  has  now  made  it  man  i  fell  thai  he  defigned 
it  t   i  the  good  of  fouls.     O  my  brother,   let  us  ne- 

VCI  be  chlcouraged  ;  we  cannot  always  tell  when  our 
labours  are  blelled.  I  cannot  {a\  how  many,  but 
the  Lord  has  made  my  poor  weak  efforts  the  means 
of  awakening  a  confidcrable  number.  But  the 
d  part  of  the  people  have  been  awakened  by 
attending  the  (olemnity  ot  baptifm,  and  by  conver- 
sation one  with  another. — Indeed,  the  moil  that  I 
can  lay  is,  //  is  the  Lord 's  doing,  and  it  is  marvel- 
lous in  our  eyes. 

There  has  not,  in  years  part,  been  the  mod  cor- 
dial fellowship  between  the  three  baptist  churches 
in  Shaftesbury;  but  the  Lord  has  now  e fretted  a 
happy  union  between  us.  On  the  lait  Lord's-day 
in  January,  we  all  met  at  one  communion  table. 
That  happy  dav  mv  foul  had  deftred  for  years.  No- 
thing but  experience  could  have  made  me  believe 
it  poihble,  that  I  could  have  felt  fo  much  folid  de- 
light, anticipated  (o  much  trouble,  and  rejoiced 
with  [o  much  trembling,  at  one  and  the  fame  time. 
That  day  I  trull  will  never  be  forgotten  by  me. 

The  north  pan  of  Bennington,  which  lies  iouth  of 
us,  has  ihared  confiderabiv  in  this  grace,  feveral 
irom  thence  have  joined  the  churches  in  this  .own, 
and  fome  few  members  from  the  town  north  of  us; 
but  thegieated  part  that  have  been  wrought  upon 
are  within  this  town,   which  is  fix  miles  fquare. 

In  about  tw  )  months  alter  the  work  began,  the 
whole  town  feemed  to  be  affected.  C  »  iference 
meetings  were  attended  two  or  thiee  lim  s  in  a 
week   in  almoll  every  neighbourhood;  and  it  was 


IO 

furprifing  to  me,  that  fcarcely  a  fingle  inftance  ap- 
peared ot  any  over-heated  zeal,  or  flight  of  paflion! 
Both  finners  under  conviction,  and  thofe  newly 
brought  into  the  liberty  ot  the  gofpel,  converfed  in 
their  meetings  with  the  greateft  freedom ;  they  fpeak 
one  at  a  time  a  few  words,  in  the  moll  folemn  man- 
ner I  ever  heard  people  in  my  life.  And  in  gene- 
ral they  fpeak  fo  low,  that  their  aflemblies  muft  be 
perfectly  (fill,  or  they  could  not  hear  them  :  yet  a 
remarkable  power  attended  their  converfation.  Sin- 
ners would  tremble  as  though  they  felt  themfelves 
in  the  immediate  prefence  of  the  great  Jehovah, 

Some  of  all  ranks  and  characters  among  ft  us  have 
been  taken ;  from  the  moft  refpeclable  members  of 
fociety  to  the  vileft  in  the  place.  Some  of  our  mofil 
noted  Deifts  have  bowed  the  knee  to  King  Jefus.  And 
a  number  of  Universalijls  have  embraced  the  truth. 

In  the  revival  four  years  ago  lafi  fummer,  we 
then  received  ten  children  into  the  church,  aged  from 
nine  to  thirteen  years,  with  a  number  of  young  peo- 
ple; all  of  them  remain  in  good  {landing  with  us, 
and  are  now  able  to  help  others ;  excepting  one, 
who,  I  truft,  is  gone  to  the  church  triumphant.  In 
this  revival  we  have  received  fixteen  whofe  ages 
are  from  nine  to  fifteen  years.  From  nine,  1  have 
ba,  nzed  lome  of  aimoft  every  age  up  to  feventy. 

We  have  now  upwards  of  one  hundred  unmar- 
ried perfons  in  this  church.  There  are  aifo  a  large 
number  of  youths,  who  have  joined  the  other 
churches  in  this  town.  O  my  God!  keep  them  in 
the  iove  of  the  truth!  My  very  foul  trembles  when 
I  think  of  them.  There  is  not  a  iufficient  number 
of  young  people  now  left  in  the  town  (who  can 
unite)  to  carry  on  their  merry  meetings.  Kvery 
company  of  them  is  broken  up. 

I  lately  enjoyed  the  happinefs  of  having  upwards 
of  feventy  youths  and  children,  that  were  proteffors, 
to  vifit  and  hold  a  conference  at  my  houfe  in  one 


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veiling.  You  may  guefs,  but  it  would  be  difficult 
to  tell;  with  whai  a  mixture  ot  joy  and  trembling  I 
icn  hlled. 

The  fevereft  cold,  {now  and  ice,  we  have  had  this 
tedious  winter,  1  have  not  heard  once  mentioned  as 
any  terror  to  the  mo  ft  delicate  ladies,  young  or  old, 
we  have  in  the  place;  but  they  have  clieart ul ly  fol- 
lowed then  Divine  Redeemer  to  the  liquid  grave, 
without  the  leaft  intimidation. 

As  to  my  felt,  I  think  it  ever  I  knew  what  it  was 
16 have  extraordinary  ftrength,  it  has  been  within  a 
few  months  pait.  My  lungs,  which  I  had  thought 
were  on  the  decay,  now  feemed  to  renew  their 
youth.  Preaching  three  and  tour  times  a  week,  be- 
fides  attending  other  meetings,  aimoft  every  day 
for  months  together,  feemed  very  little,  if  any,  to 
exhauft  my  ftrength.  I  think,  of  all  men  in  the 
world,  I  have  the  greateft  caufe  to  be  humble  be- 
tote  Gcd.  tor  his  abundant  goodnefs  beftowed  up- 
on a  moil  unworthy  wretch. 

When  I  think  upon  my  weaknefs  and  ineffi- 
ciency, and  the  great  number  of  young,  inexpe- 
rienced Chnftians  committed  to  my  charge,  my 
heart  (inks  within  me;  and  I  am  readv  to  wiih  they 
had  a  more  able  and  pious  watchman  to  go  before 
them.  But  all  the  hope  I  have  is,  that  He  who 
leadeth  Jofeph  like  a  fiock  will  gather  the  lambs  in 
his  arms,  atid  gently  lead  his  flock  into  the  flowery 
fields  ot  goipel  truth,  and  bedde  the  ftill  waters  of 
eternal  life. 

I  fometimes  anticipate  fo  much  trouble,  that  it 
quite  abloibs  my  ipirtts,  and  drowns  my  joy.  Then 
I  think  it  beft  to  rejoice  when  I  can,  and  let  to- 
morrow take  thought  tor  itfelt. 

It  is,  however,  a  very  interefting  crifis  with  us; 
if  we  are  faithtul,  and  make  aright  improvement  of 
the  great  mercies  beftowed  upon  us,  we  may  conti- 
nue to  be  a  happy  people:  if  not,  a  furies  of  trouble 


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and  forrow  awaits  us.  Dear  brother,  pray  for  us 
that  we  may  be  kept  in  the  love  of  the  truth  ;  that 
the  God  of  love  and  peace  may  ever  dwell  with  us. 
I  mult  not  indulge  my  feelings,  I  ihall  intrude 
upon  your  patience. 


EXTRACT    VI. 

A  Gentleman  in  Pembroke  thus  writes  to  his  friend  in  Bofton. 
Dear  Sir,  Pembroke,  April  2,  1799. 

VJOD  has  been  pleafed  to  begin  a  glorious  work 
in  the  firft  parifh  in  Mar/kfield,  and  a  few  fcatter- 
ing  drops  in  towns  adjoining,  although  but  a  few  as 
yet.  O  may  we  all  be  enabled  to  wreffle  like  Jacob, 
and  prevail  like  Ifrael.  We  need  the  prayers  of  all 
who  have  an  intereft  at  the  throne  of  grace,  that  we 
may  be  kept  from  error  and  delufion.  O  may  the 
time  foon  come,  when  the  knowledge  of  God  lhall 
cover  the  earth,  as  the  waters  do  the  feas. 

As  to  the  prefent  ftate  of  the  reformation  amongft 
us,  there  are  between  thirty  and  forty,  in  a  judgment 
of  charity,  brought  to  the  knowledge  of  the  truth; 
and  more  than  that  number  feem  to  be  under  ferious 
impreflions  of  mind. 


oooooooocooooooo 


EXTRACT    VII. 

The  Rev.  P P ,  of  Deer-Ifle,   writes  thus  in  a   Letter  to 

his  Friend  in  Newbury-Port. 

Dear  Brother,  Deer-Ifle,  March  20,  1799. 

IN  your  la  ft  letter  to  me,  you  wrote  you  had 
heard  there  was  a  revival  of  religion  fomewhere  in 
thefe  parts;  and  defired  me  to  give  you  an  account 
of  it. 


'3 

In  t'nc  beginning  of  June  lad,  I  was  called  to 
Mount  D'J->t,  to  ad  mini  Iter  fac laments  to  a  chinch 
that  iiave  not  a  dated  pallor,  ami  tarried  with  them 
about  nine  days;   when,  in  preaching   my    fecond 

fermon,  the  glory  of  the  Lord  came  down  in  a  won- 
dcrtul  manner.  One  convicted,  and  hopefully 
Converted,  under  that  fermon,  was  added  to  the 
church  about  two  days  alter,  and  three  others  who 
had  before  obtained  a  hope.  Three  months  after 
this,  I  went  again  to  adminiltcr  the  Lord's  Supper, 
at  which  time  I  admitted  twenty-eight,  who  had 
hopefully  been  brought  home  in  the  interval.  The 
work  of  conviction  was  then  going  on  powerfully 
in  that  town,  and  fpreading  into  thofe  adjoining 
on  the  fame  ifland.*  Our  allociation  had  licenfcd 
dear  Mr.  Ebenezer  Eaton  to  preach,  who  improved 
his  talent,  labouring  night  and  dav  among  them, 
wham  the  Lord  remarkably  owned.  How  many 
have  been  brought  out  (ince  I  was  there,  I  am  not 
intormed  ;  but  according  to  the  beft  accounts, 
there  are  many.  The  Lord  multiply  the  number, 
and  add  to  the  church  fuch  as  (ball  be  Caved! 

I  now  come  a  little  nearer  home.  In  the  begin- 
ning of  winter,  this  glorious  work  began  in  A 
wick,  under  the  paftoral  care  of  the  Rev.  j% 
Mernll.  Perhaps  there  hath  not  been  a  work  fo 
powerful,  and  fo  much  like  the  work  fifty-eight 
years  ago.  In  a  time  of  fuch  extraordinaries,  it 
could  not  reafonably  be  expe6ted  but  fome  things 
would  be  a  little  wild  and  incoherent,  confidering 
the  various  tempers,  infirmities,  and  difpofitions  or 
mankind  ;  but  I  believe  my  young  and  dear  brother 
Mcrriil,  with  other  experienced  chriftians  were 
very  careful  to  diflmguilh  the  precious  from  the 
vile — to  correct  errors,  "  to  fet  the  people  in  the 

B 


*  Mount  Dcert  is  an  I  lobfcottBty 


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way  of  his  fteps,"  \o  that  there  appears  to  be  no 
prevalence  of  enthufiafm  among  them,  according 
to  the  bed  information.  How  great  the  number  of 
thofe  who  have  been  brought  to  hope,  I  am  not 
able  to  give  anv  tolerably  good  account :  fome  fay- 
there  are  about  an  hundred,  others  about  double 
that  number:  I  believe  they  are  all  very  uncertain. 
Blefied  be  God,  the  work  is  Hill  going  on  there, 
though  not  with  equal  rapidity. 

And  now,  dear  Sir,  let  your  imagination  paint  to 
your  view  the  finking  fcene  of  an  hundred  fouls, 
men,  women,  and  children,  at  the  fame  time  under 
the  work  of  the  law.  The  tears,  fobs,  groans,  and 
cries  iffuing  from  (cores  at  a  time!  All  the  terrors 
of  the  law  crowding  and  preiTing  in  upon  them; 
their  fins,  in  infinite  numbers  and  aggravations, 
flaring  them  in  the  face ;  all  their  old  vain  hopes 
gone,  and  cut  off,  and  every  refuge  failing!  Hear 
them  freely  confefTing  their  old  abominations,  their 
former  enmity  to  the  great  doclrines  of  original  fin, 
election,  the  fovereignty  of  divine,  free  grace,  the 
powerof  Goddifplayed  in  effectual  vocation;  above 
all,  the  juftice  of  God  in  their  damnation  !  How 
often  are  fouls  brought  out  into  the  peace  and  com- 
fort of  the  love  of  God,  and  the  fweet  confolations 
of  the  Holy  Spirit.  The  dead  hear  the  voice  of  the 
Son  of  God,  and  live.  Children  are  brought  to 
crv,  "  Hosanna  to  the  Son  of  David."  Indeed  this 
glorious  work  has  been  wondetful  among  children: 
and  God  has  made  instruments  ot  them  to  per  left 
his  praife  in  carrying  on  his  work. 

This  blefied  work  of  God  has  begun  in  Blue-Hill: 
but  as  vet  has  not  gained  the  afcendency  ;  I  Iha-U 
therefore  come  to  my  own  dear  people  or  Deer-Ifle. 
And  here,  perhaps  the  work  is  as  remarkable  as  at 
Sedgzcick,  but  not  fo  rapid.  Not  more  than  eight 
months  ago  it  appeared  to  me  that  religion  was  near 
■expiring   among  us.  except  in  a  very  handtul  of 


'5 

prof c flbrs.      Dcifin  had    taken   an    unaccount  i 
Stride,  and  fpread  itfelf  over  a  great  number  ol  the 

inhabitants.  And  now,  No  Bible,  no  Chrift!  the 
Chriftian  religion,  ami  Chriitians,  were  the  long  ot 
tlie  drunkard  ;  and  drunken nefs  and  every  vice  was 
deemed  harrnlefs,  and  ingrTenfive  to  God.   I  had  no 

reafon  to  think  but  by  the  next  annual  meeting  oi 
the  town,  they  would  vote  the    Gofpel  out    from 

them.      When  the  aforementioned  work  at  Penob 
and  Mount  De/ert  was  going  on,  it  feemed  to 

have  no  influence  on  our  people.  This  you  may  be 
fure  was  grievous  to  me.  However,  I  think  I  was 
enabled  to  bear  witnefs  to  the  truth  with  great  free- 
dom. In  October,  I  perceived  a  more  clofe  atten- 
tion to  the  word,  but  nothing  fpecial  as  yet.  Alter 
I  was  confined  to  my  houfe,  the  work  began  to  ap- 
pear; and  though  I  could  not  go  abroad,  nor  preach 
at  the  Meeting- houfe,  there  was  feldom  a  day  but 
more  or  lefs  viOted  me  under  their  trouble,  and  I 
preached  in  my  own  houfe  when  I  was  not  able  to 
{land  on  nay  feet.  At  length  we  had  the  afliltance 
of  Mr.  E.  Eaton,  whom  God  remarkably  owns.  I 
believe  there  are  about  forty  men,  women,  and  chil- 
dren, who  have  obtained  a  hope;  and  great  num- 
bers are  under  prelling  conviction.  The  work  is 
novv  on  the  increafe.  May  the  Lord  continue  and 
{till  increafe  it  till  they  aie  all  brought  in.  The 
m  >uth  ol  deifm  is  at  prefent  Hopped,  and  again  (I  the 
children  of  Ifrael  not  ^o  much  as  a  dog  is  fullered 
to  move  his  tongue.  O  may  the  Lord  go  on  from 
conquering  to  conquer,  till  the  whole  earth  [hall 
be  filled  with  Ins  glory. 

T.ms,   dear  Sir,   I   have  complied  with  vour  dc- 
fire.      If  you  think  proper,  you  may  cauie  the  fore- 
going Narrative  to   be   printed   in  the  newfpapers 
Such  accounts  may  be  a  mean  of  putting  a  carelei 
people  under  con  G  deration. 
B  2 


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EXTRACT   VIII. 

.rs  Letter  from  a  Perfon  in  Deer-Ifle,  to  a  Society  with  which  he  is 
connected  in  Newbury-Port,  dated  March  15,   1799. 

Dear  Friends  and  Brethren, 

\  V  PULE  I  am  partaking  a  rich  repair,  I  hear- 
tily defire  my  friends  may  have  a  fhare  of  a  feaft 
indeed.  It  is  in  vain  for  me  to  attempt  to  defcribe 
the  wonders  ot  the  love  and  grace  of  God  manifefted 
in  a  marvellous  manner  among  us ;  and  in  the  adja- 
cent parts.  It  has  pleafed  God  to  vifit  us  by  the 
out-pouring  of  his  bleffed  Spirit,  fo  that  even  op- 
pofers  acknowledge  it  to  be  the  work  of  God,  of 
whom  fome  of  thegreateft  have  been,  I  hope,  fav- 
ingly  wrought  upon. 

This  bleffed  and  glorious  work  firft  began  in  a 
frnall  neighbourhood  that  have  lived  in  a  carelefs 
&nd  negligent  manner  as  to  their  attendance  on  the 
means  of  grace:  the  head  of  the  firft  family  that 
was  wrought  upon,  is  a  man  about  fixty  years  of 
age  :  I  never  faw  him  at  meeting  but  twice  fince  I 
lived  on  the  ifland,  before  this  winter:  God  has 
been  pleafed  to  vifit  him  and  his  wife,  and  they 
both  appear  to  be  humble  chriftians.  with  feveral 
others  or  that  family.  The  work  is  daily  increafing 
and  fpreading  through  the  town  ;  there  were  tour 
or  five  brought  into  the  light  under  one  fermon  this 
week;  there  have  been  nineteen  perfons  come  for- 
ward and  made  a  public  profeflion  of  religion,  and 
joined  the  Church  already,  and  nearly  as  many  more 
profefs  to  have  a  hope. 

This  work  has  been  more  extend ve  in  Sedgwick  : 
I  am  credibly  informed  it  has  vifned  every  houfe  tor 
fourteen  miles,  and  about  one  hundred  fouls  are 
hopefully  converted.  What  {hall  we  fay  to  thefe 
things  ?     Let  us  adore  the  free  grace  of  our  bleffed 


l7 

God  and  Saviour,  I  think  there  is  great  encourage- 
ment tor  all  thai  love  our  Lord,  And  have  an  m- 
terefl  at  the  throne  of  grace,  to  plead  with  God  to 
fpread  this  glorious  work.  Let  us  a! I  addre  arid 
praife  his  name  tor  his  wonderful  works  to  the  (bns 
of  men.  I  blefs  God  that  he  has  given  me  to  fee 
fuch  glorious  davs  of  the  Son  of  Man.  It  has  been 
a  Sabbath  to  me  all  this  winter;  I  have  enjoyed  a 
continued  feall,  and  find  it  good  to  wait  on  God.  I 
had  rather  be  a  door  keeper  in  his  houfe,  than  to 
dwell  in  the  tents  of  fin. 

O  that  it  would  plcafe  God  to  caufe  a  glorious 
fljower  of  divine  grace  to  defcend  upon  you.  My 
foul  longs  tor  your  falvation,  that  every  member  oi 
your  1  if  tie  focietv  may  be  a  partaker  of  the  heavenlv 
grace;  may  this  be  a  mean  of  ftirring  vou  up,  and 
eng  iging  your  hearts  in  the  things  of  God.  Let  not 
worldly  cares  turn  your  attention  from  this  moil  im- 
portant concern:  not  only  our  prefent  but  everlaft- 
ing  happinefs  lies  here. 


eoeoeotoacaecro* 


EXTRACT   IX. 

A  Letter  written  by  Mrs.  A S ,  in  I  , 

to  the  Rev.  I  laic  Backus,  at  Miudlcboi  'ja,'!). 

Dear  Sir,  Litchfield,  April  6:  1790. 

1  HERE  has  been  a  wonderful  out-pouring 
of  God's  Spirit  in  thefe  parts  this  winter,  efpecially 
among  t  >e  youth.  As  many  as  twenty-five  have 
joined  this  church  this  winter,  who  are  not  more 
than  twenty-years  old  ;  and  one  lad  who  was  but 
nine.  I  believe  there  i^  not  one  houfe  miffed  for 
feven  or  eight  miles,  but  what  the  Lord  has  taken 
B3 


i8 

fome  out  of  every  family.  And  in  one  family, 
which  but  a  few  years  ago  was  in  open  oppofition  to 
this  caufe,  feven  out  of  eleven  have  nowprofeffed  to 
know  Jefus  Chrift  aRd  the  power  of  his  refurrec- 
tion  ;  one  of  whom  was  baptized  laft  Lord's-day. 
And  while  we  were  bv  the  water- fide,  the  power  of 
the  Lord  came  down  like  the  rufhing  of  a  mighty 
wind.  One  young  woman  was  fo  (truck  with  the 
fenfe  of  her  duty  that  (he  could  not  {land  on  her 
feet.  The  people  feeing  her  falter,  thought  fhe  was 
faint ;  but  (lie  faid,  No,  no  ;  her  friends  were  in  fuch 
oppofition  to  the  Baptifts,  that  (he  had  never  faid 
any  thing  openly  about  religion. — In  the  after- 
noon infteadof  a  fermon  fhe  told  her  exercifes,  and 
two  more,  who  were  baptized  the  fame  day.  We 
thought  the  reformation  was  almoft  over  in  this 
place;  but  we  find  the  Lord  has  not  forfaken  us; 
bleiled  be  his  name,  he  is  fliil  giving  us  a  tafte  of 
hk  love, 


ceccce.'oaoocojuo 


EXTRACT    X. 


Another   Letter,    Sated  Bowiloinham,  April  29,   1799,    from   the 
Rev.  Job  Macomber,  to  the  fame,  contains  the  following. 

OINCE  our  laft  AiTociatkm,  elder  Wm.  Stin- 
jon,  who  is  ordained  over  the  fir  ft  church  in  Litch- 
field, has  baptized  118.  Thegreateft  part  of  them 
belong  to  that  town.  The  winter  before  laft  there 
was  the  mo  ft  powerful  work  in  Bowdoine  that  I  ever 
law  fmce  I  came  into  thefe  parts.  It  prevailed 
through  the  town.  Elder  Potter  baptized  22  in 
one  day.  And  it  was  as  powerful  in  Litchfield 'laft: 
winter;  Elder Stinfon  baptized  13  there  in  one  day. 
Thefe  weie  two  as  told  winters  as  were  ever  known 
here.     The  work  has  new  be^un  in  this  town,   Si*; 


pcrfons  have  lately  manifefted  a  change  of  heart ; 
two  of  them  are  my  children.  The  work  ftill 
prevails. 


co5o:-3oc-eeocc»» 


EXTRACT    XI. 


From  the  Rev.  J. D ,  in  Nova-Scotia,  to  his  Friend  in 

Boston,  dated  Halifax,   May  25,  1799. 


Dear  Brother, 

i\  otwithftanding  many  complaints  as  to  the 
ftate  of  religion  in  fume  parts;  yet  God  is  marvel- 
ioufly  vifiting  feveral  townfhips  with  the  mowers  of 
his  grace.  In  Annapolis  County  the  following 
places  have  (hared  largely,  viz.  Granville,  Will- 
mouth,  Niclau,  and  Aylesford.  King's  County, 
Norton,  and  Cornwallis,  have  been  wonderfully 
vifited.  Sinners  have  been  converted  to  God,  and 
Chriftians  to  their  duty.  Two  Pedo-baptifr  Mi- 
ni Iters  have  been  baptized,  and  a  great  many  young 
converts.  The  three  la  ft  facramental  occafions,  I 
think  there  were  baptized,  the  lft.  thirteen — the 
2d.  twenty-feven — the  3d.  twenty-eight. 

There  are  alfo  favourable  fymptoms  among  the 
Dutch  people  at  Lunenburgh.  Many  of  them  who 
had  been  violent  opp-jfers  of  religion,  having  (pent 
all  their  arrows,  fay  they  will  fight  no  mure.  Some 
are  under  very  ferious  impreflions,  and  a  few  hope- 
rnlly  converted. 


2?0^ 


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EXTRACT   XII, 

Containing  a  furcher  account  of  the  fame  work,  in  a  Letter  frorn 
the  Rev.  T H.  C ,  to  his  Friend  in  Bofton,  dated  Anna- 
polis in  Nova-Scotia,  July  15,    1799.* 

Dear  Sir, 

1  am  confident  you  will  be  glad  to  hear  of  the 
advancement  of   Chrift's   Kingdom,  though  by  an 
unfkilfnl   hand.     Therefore    mall    attempt  to   give 
you  fome  account  of  what   God   has  done    among 
us.     The  Fall  after  I  was  laft  at   Bofton,   it  plea  fed 
God  to  vifit  our  fociety,  at  the  lower  part  of  £ra»» 
ville;  it  was   a   blefled  time  of  God's  power,    and 
additions  were  made  to  the  church.    A  year  ago  laft 
January,    God  began  to  vifit   us  here,  and  in    our 
fociety  at  Willmouth,  where  I  preach  a  third  part  of 
my  time.      It  lias  been   a  moil  aftonifhing  time  of 
God's  power,  fuch  as  I  never  knew  before.    I  can- 
not give  you  a  full   defcription  of  it.     I  have  fre- 
quently been  called  out  of  my  bed  at  night  to  vifit 
diftreffed  fouls.   They  have  fometimes  been  brought 
from  the  deeped  diitrefs  to  fhout  the  praifes  of  the 
living  God.      My  four  cdeft  children,  I  doubt  not, 
are  made  partakers  oi  grace  divine.     Two  of  them 
are  baptized.     Since  the  work  began,  I  have  bap- 
tized   173  perfons   (in   about    thirteen  months)   but 
not  all  in  our  church.    Cornzvallis  and  Horton  have 
fhared  largely  with  us.     I  baptized  two  of  our  Mi- 
nitowers +  laft  fummer,  and  am  to  baptize  another  as 
foon  as  I  can  go  where  he  lives. 


*  In  1794,  there  were  four  Baptift  Churches  in  Nova-Scotia,  the 

principal  Minifter  was  Henry  Cl.ipman.     See  Afj  lund's  Regifter. 
■f  This  Connexion  or  Association  was  formed  of  Pedo  and  Anti- 

pedo-baptifts. 


21 


Our  Congregation  lias  increafed  greatly.  Laft 
year  we  built  a  new  Meeting- Houfe at  the  upper  end 
of  Granville,  where  I  preach  a  third  part  ot  my  time, 
and  this  iummer  we  have  enlarged  it  twenty  teet. 
O  that  we  may  never  be  high-minded,  but  tear. 


OCOOOOOOCOCOCOOO 


EXTRACT    XIII. 

From  a  Minirter  in  Conne&icur,  to  hit  Fricni  hi  Bofton. 
Dear  Brother  in  Clirijl,  Lyme,  June  30,  1799. 

ACCORDING  to  your  defire,  I  will  endea- 
vour to  defenbe  fome  of  the  efTecfs  of  the  glorious 
work  of  God  in  this  place,  the  preceding  Fall  and 
Winter.  Previous  to  which  I  muft  intorm  you, 
there  was  a  great  ftupidity  on  the  minds  of  our 
brethren,  who  appeared  to  dwell  in  their  ceiled 
houfes,  while  the  houfe  of  God  lay  waite.  There 
were  a  few  drops  in  the  month  of  Auguft  ;  but  on 
the  firft  Lord's-day  in  Sept.  many  began  to  be 
alarmed;  we  therefore  thought  it  our  duty  to  ap- 
point a  day  of  fading  and  prayer,  which  was  on 
the  feventh  day  of  the  fame  month.  There  was  an 
univerfal  folemnity,  and  profound  attention  ob- 
ferved  on  the  tace  of  the  afTembly,  which  exceeded 
any  thing  I  ever  faw  before-  It  was  a  fart-day  in- 
deed. The  faints  arofe  by  conftflion  of  the  infinite 
evil  of  fin, — with  fixed  refolution  to  lead  a  new 
life. — And  in  the  clofe  ot  the  day  (like  St.  Paul) 
they  thanked  God,  and  took  courage.  After  this 
our  meetings  increafed,  and  the  blclled  e  flu  lions  of 
the  Holy  Spirit  were  diftilied  upon  us.  It  was  affect- 
ing to  behold  the  faints  exhorting;  backfliders  re- 
turning; and  poor  finners  crying  for  mercy.  On 
the  firfl  Lord's-day  in  October  we  attended  on  the 
ordinance  o\  baptifm.  M\  poor  foul  was  warmed 
with  the  love  of  God,  which  made  me  fpeak  from 


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the  heart,  and  it  reached  the  hearts  of  my  brethren, 
and  the  dear  aflembly  ;  and  we  enjoyed  commu- 
nion with  the  Father,  Son,  and  Spirit,  at  the  Lord's 
Table. 

After  this,  conferences  increafed.  My  brethren 
were  much  engaged  in  prayer  to  God  for  the  effufion 
of  his  Spirit.  At  fome  of  our  conferences  there  was 
a  great  folemnity  upon  the  young  and  children;  one 
of  whom  mourned  that  me  had  lived  in  fin  twelve 
years,  till  {he  thought  fhe  became  an  old  finner; 
but  it  pleafed  God  at  this  time  to  reveal  Chrift  to 
her  and  many  others,  and  to  give  them  the  hope  of 
glory. 

On  the  firft  Lord's-day  in  November  I  baptized 
two.  It  was  a  good  feafon.  The  ninth  of  this 
month  was  a  memorable  night !  The  Lord  glorioufly 
manifefted  his  power  and  love  in  bringing  three 
perfons  into  the  full  liberty  of  the  gofpel;  one  of 
whom  was  my  fifth  child,  who  I  truff  is  brought 
into  the  Kingdom  of  Christ.  Another  in  agony  of 
loul  cried  out,  "  If  I  goto  hell,  I  will  go  begging 
for  mercy!"  and  her  distrefs  increafed  to  fucha  de- 
gree, that  fhe  left  her  chamber  the  latter  part  of  the 
night,  and  went  into  a  burying-yard,  and  fell  on 
her  knees  in  great  distrefs,  till  the  kind  Lord  re- 
vealed himfelf  to  her  in  a  wonderful  manner.  The 
third  was  a  woman  near  forty  years  ol  age,  who 
gave  a  clear  relation  of  the  love  ol  God  to  her 
foul.  We  now  law,  both  in  the  houfe  of  God  and 
in  our  own  houfes,  the  fweet  influences  of  the  blef- 
fed  Spirit  bowing  stout-hearted  finners  to  the  fceptre 
of  Emanuel. 

The  first  of  December  was  our  Covenant-Meet- 
ing preceding  the  Lord's-day,  which  was  taken  up 
in  hearing  the  relations  of  candidates.  A  number 
more  related  their  exercifes  the  day  following  ;  and 
notwithstanding  it  was  a  very  fevere  fnow-storm, 
twelve  were  baptized,  a  number  of  whom   were 


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youths  from  ten  to  fifteen  years  of  age.  Old  pro- 
FefTors  in  genera]  were  animated  with  the  love  of 
God,  and  were  mighty  in  praver  tor  precious  fouls, 
triumphing  over  the  united  powers  of  darknefs.  In- 
deed it  is  almost  beyond  my  power  to  give  a  full 
dcfcnption  ol  this  wonderful  fcene.  It  is  alfo  to  be 
remarked  that  our  brethrenof  the  Prefbyterian  order 
and  other  denominations  joined  with  us  in  promo- 
ting the  caufe  of  our  blefled  Redeemer.  About 
this  time,  meetings  on  week-days  were  appointed, 
for  receiving  candidates,  and  attending  to  baptifm; 
jfa  i  through  the  feverity  of  this  tedious  winter,  I 
nj^ver  heard  any  one  complain  or  fin  ink  at  the  crofs, 
on  account  of  the  coldneis  of  the  weather. 

This  work  has  b.en  glorioufly  carried  on  in  the 
fpirit  of  love.  In  the  first  part  of  it,  there  was  great 
out-crving,  but  it  gradually  fubfided  into  a  iree  deli- 
berate converfation  on  the  dreadful  fit  u  at  ion  they 
were  in  bv  nature;  and  tlieir-full  determination  to 
continue  (eeking  till  they  (hould  find  him  of  whom 
Moles  and  the  Prophets  did  write.  I  never  faw  left 
oppofition  to  the  work  of  God. 

The  principal  part  of  this  work  was  in  our  fo- 
ciety ;  but  it  has  ipread  into  others  in  the  neighbour- 
ing towns.  More  than  an  hundred  we  hope  have 
received  the  grace  of  God;  and  more  than  eighty 
have  joined  the  church  under  my  care. 

When  I  confider  the  great  number  of  fouls  com- 
mitted to  my  charge,  and  mv  own  infufficicnev,  my 
heart  Un  inks  within  me;  but  all  my  hope  is  in  the 
great  Head  of  the  Church.  My  daily  prayer  is,  that 
he  would  grant  me  his  grace  as  an  under  Shepherd, 
to  difcharge  my  dutv  towards  God  and  my  dear 
Flock,  during  my  few  remaining  days. 

The  number  of  members  under  my  care  at  prc- 
fent,  is  three  hundred  and  thirty. fix. 


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INFORMATION,  though  not  very  correft,  has 
c!fo  been  received  from  a  number  of  towns  in  Ckt- 
Jfiire  County,  in  New-HampJJiire,  of  a  very  plea  i  i  r 
and  extenfive  reformation. 

The   following  towns   are   faid   to  have    fhar  ■ 
largely  in  it;   viz.  Unity*  Marlozo,  Lemfttr,  Aljlct 
Acku'orth,  Corntfh,  and  Plarnjidd\   with  lomeoth 
in  that  neighbourhood.    The  towns  of  Stratkam  i 
New -market,   in   New-Hampjlnre,   are  favoured 
this  time  with  like  revivals;  but  for  want  of  ao 
rate   documents,  a    particular  account    cannot 
given. 

If  the  repentance  of  flnners  caufes  joy  in  hea 
among  the  angels  of  God,   what  fhouts  of  immo 
praifemust  have  echoed  through  all  the  realm*    _. 
blifs,  upon  the  accefhon  of  fuch  numbers  to 
Redeemer's  Kingdom! 

O  Lord,  may  thy  kingdom  come,  and  thy  will 
done,  on  earth  as  it  is  in  heaven,  for  Christ's  fa 
Amen, 


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